Food

So we stopped Noelle's cereal adventures as of today for the time being. For the past 2 weeks (ever since we started giving her rice cereal on a consistent, twice a day basis), she's had diarrhea off and on. I'm trying to figure out if it's the rice cereal, the fact that she takes an hour to finish a bottle of milk, or something I'm eating and thus getting into her breastmilk. I doubt the 3rd thing since I've always eaten a variety of things and nothing has changed in the past 2 weeks. I wonder about the 2nd cuz the baby books say that a bottle of breastmilk is only good for a while...something about a baby's saliva changes its composition so technically, a bottle of the stuff should not be sitting around for more than a few minutes after a feeding has started. In other words, Noelle's tendency to drink and then take a break of 20 minutes or more is a no no when drinking breastmilk from a bottle. I had switched her to barley cereal on Sunday for a day but thought it would be best to start from scratch so no cereal for now.

I confess, part of the reason for the breather is also because I'm still scrambling to figure out solids for her. My tendency to want to learn everything possible before starting it is making the idea of solids for her a big source of anxiety for me. I still haven't decided about the organic vs. non-organic either. My friend just sent me a helpful tip about diapers.com making it easy to buy organic (thanks, Va!) and I think I will start getting stuff from there. However, I already bought a whole bunch of Beechnut cereals (rice, barley, and oatmeal cereals) from the local supermarket so I hate the idea of wasting it all, too. *sigh* Who says more options makes things easier?